Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Wisdom

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

Mencken, H. L.

He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.

Epictetus

Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

Elizabeth, Queen

Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning.

Evans, Bergen

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. [1 Corinthians 3:18-19]

Bible

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.

Pindar

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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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The heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water.

Proverb, Camerounian

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Understanding the limitations of human beings as well as understanding your own is the beginning of true wisdom.

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is a tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

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No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, --something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

Connolly, Cyril

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What a wonderful world this would be if there were as many wise people as there are clever people.

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One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

James Boswell

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Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.

Young, Andrew

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The end result of wisdom is... good deeds.

Talmud, The

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Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.

Proverb, Turkish

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There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil -- not the strength to choose between the two.

Cheever, John

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men.

Talmud, The

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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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Wisdom is better than weapons of war. [9:18b, Ecclesiastes]

Bible

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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

Confucius

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Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

Ziggy

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Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.

Cullen Hightower

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Many people might have attained wisdom had they not assumed they already had it.

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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When you move amidst the world of sense, free from attachment and aversion alike, there comes the peace in which all sorrows end, and you life in the wisdom of the Self.

Bhagavad Gita

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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.

Butler, Samuel

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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile.

Hoagland, Edward